Pastoral Resources

Faith is the sense of life, that sense by virtue of which man does not destroy himself, but continues to live on. It is the force whereby we live.

The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.

Our culture peculiarly honors the act of blaming, which it takes as the sign of virtue and intellect.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

When virtue is lost, benevolence appears, when benevolence is lost right conduct appears, when right conduct is lost, expedience appears. Expediency is the mere shadow of right and truth; it is the beginning of disorder.

To realize that you do not understand is a virtue; Not to realize that you do not understand is a defect.

Her virtue was that she said what she thought, her vice that what she thought didn't amount to much.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Vice stirs up war, virtue fights.

Our failings sometimes bind us to one another as closely as could virtue itself.

Many writers who choose to be active in the world lose not virtue but time, and that stillness without which literature cannot be made.

Who sows virtue reaps honor.

Even virtue is fairer when it appears in a beautiful person.

The only virtue a character needs to possess between hardcovers, even if he bears a real person's name, is vitality: if he comes to life in our imaginations, he passes the test.

Tyrants have always some slight shade of virtue; they support the laws before destroying them.

It is an infantile superstition of the human spirit that virginity would be thought a virtue and not the barrier that separates ignorance from knowledge.

It is one of the superstitions of the human mind to have imagined that virginity could be a virtue.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Virtue knows to a farthing what it has lost by not having been vice.

Justice is rather the activity of truth, than a virtue in itself. Truth tells us what is due to others, and justice renders that due. Injustice is acting a lie.